Learning Objectives:

• Identify a subset of data needed from a column or set of columns and write a SQL query to limit to those results

• Use SQL commands to filter, sort and summarize data

• Create an analysis table from multiple queries using the UNION operator

• Manipulate strings, dates, & numeric data using functions to integrate data from different sources into fields with the correct format for analysis

Learning Objectives:

• How to inspect and understand APIs and third party libraries to be used with Python 3

• How to apply the Python imaging library (pillow) to open, view, and manipulate strings, including cropping, resizing, recoloring, and overlaying text 

• How to apply the Python tesseract library (py-tesseract) to detect text in images through Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• How to apply the open source computer vision library (opencv) to detect faces in images, & how to crop and manipulate these faces into contact sheets 

Learning Objectives:

• How to inspect and understand APIs and third party libraries to be used with Python 3

• How to apply the Python imaging library (pillow) to open, view, and manipulate strings, including cropping, resizing, recoloring, and overlaying text 

• How to apply the Python tesseract library (py-tesseract) to detect text in images through Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• How to apply the open source computer vision library (opencv) to detect faces in images, & how to crop and manipulate these faces into contact sheets 

Learning Objectives:

• How to inspect and understand APIs and third party libraries to be used with Python 3

• How to apply the Python imaging library (pillow) to open, view, and manipulate strings, including cropping, resizing, recoloring, and overlaying text

• How to apply the Python tesseract library (py-tesseract) to detect text in images through Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• How to apply the open source computer vision library (opencv) to detect faces in images, & how to crop and manipulate these faces into contact sheets

Learning Objectives:

• How to inspect and understand APIs and third party libraries to be used with Python 3

• How to apply the Python imaging library (pillow) to open, view, and manipulate strings, including cropping, resizing, recoloring, and overlaying text

• How to apply the Python tesseract library (py-tesseract) to detect text in images through Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• How to apply the open source computer vision library (opencv) to detect faces in images, & how to crop and manipulate these faces into contact sheets

Learning Objectives:

• Navigate the Microsoft Azure Portal

• Create an Azure Dashboard

• Create a custom dashboard and add appropriate services

Learning Objectives:

The revolution in data science has transformed, for better or worse, the way companies do business in the last few decades. But data science isn't just for capitalists. AI is one of the most important forces for change developed in the last century, and we've only begun to recognize its true power and potential. In Data for Good: Using Data Science in Nonprofits and NGOs, Martin Kemka examines how data science and machine learning can be used outside of the for-profit sector. He covers parameters for how data works to influence our world, how the data-for-good concept can be applied, how to determine the best problems to solve with data, and what tools are needed. Martin also provides real-world case studies and challenges to further illustrate the lessons. 

Learning Objectives:

Introduction to the core structures, vocabulary, and practices that you need to get started creating on the web. Learn about the fundamentals of clients, servers, and browsers, building your skill set for website planning and prototyping, and developing your understanding of user experience and user interface. Get an overview of the three main front-end technologies of websites: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—followed by a brief introduction to writing code to find out what it’s really like. 

Learning Objectives:

• 3D printing parts, using fused deposition modeling, stereolithography, and selective laser sintering (FDM, SLA, and SLS)

• Working with CNC mills and lathes

• Building a silicon mold and resin casting a part

• Injection molding a plastic part

• Creating quick 2D models

• Using laser and touch-probe scanners

Learning Objectives:

While the internet and wireless communication technologies have been connecting people in new ways, it has also been linking together our products. The development of complex products requires bigger teams and greater specialization, and coordinating that effort is its own systemic challenge. As the complexity and interconnectedness of products rises, so does the need for an approach that guarantees that your products deliver the best experiences. In this course, Walter Zesk, professor and cofounder of Conform Lab, shows you how to apply systems thinking to product design. Walter points out several benefits of systematic product design, then steps you through how to analyze product mechanisms as systems. He explains how to identify innovative trends and optimize functionality in your designs., including functional conflict resolution. Plus, Walter goes over distributed products, experiential products, and network products. 

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the process of managing a design team.

• Determine the best approach in identifying pain points.

• Describe the purpose of an experience map.

• Apply best practices to design ideas.

• Interpret the elements of a successful paper prototype.

• Break down the role and impact of using design agencies and teams in the design process.

Learning Objectives:

Relationships are part of our daily lives, and focusing on them is a proven method for successful communication. To raise funds successfully, you need to aim for long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships. This starts by understanding the exponential growth of the nonprofit world’s impact on donors. This course from Fundraising Academy explains how donor’s mindsets have changed with the development of watchdog organizations. Learn to embrace your selling persona and improve prospective and donor relationships with the Cause Selling Cycle. Explore ways to remain ethical in the gray areas, as well as the time management, organizational, and communication skills that you will need as prospective donors decide to partner with you and your cause. 

Learning Objectives:

• Why cause marketing is important

• Selecting the right cause

• Selecting a specific organization to partner with

• Communicating a cause internally and externally

• Promoting a cause through social media

• Testing a cause marketing initiative

• Measuring your results

Learning Objectives:

• Designing the foundations for your strategic plan

• Building your strategic planning team

• Developing your vision and mission

• Setting long-term goals

• Determining the current state of your strategic plan

• Executing your strategic plan

• Avoiding common pitfalls

Learning Objectives:

When you launch a new product or enter a new market, it's crucial to have both a roadmap that sets you up for success and the means to track the growth of your program. In this course, discover how to build and develop a go-to-market (GTM) plan for your next product or service. Join renowned marketing author Deirdre Breakenridge as she takes you through the steps needed to bring your product or service to the world. Deirdre helps you discern whether you need a GTM plan, and shows how to build a product strategy that's tailored to the market and customer base you aim to reach. She shares methods for pricing and promotion, and explains how to drive better channel performance, evaluate KPIs and metrics, and more. 

Learning Objectives:

• How the decision journey has evolved

• Defining and using buyer personas

• Developing insight-driven journey stages

• Choosing touchpoints strategically

• Aligning messaging across the brand's touchpoints

Learning Objectives:

• Define the problem your business solves.

• Determine a product and revenue model.

• Build a go-to market strategy.

• Describe the components of a product development roadmap.

• Explain how to brand and market a product.

• List criteria for choosing suppliers.

• Identify common pitfalls of business plans.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the process of creating a project charter

• Explain the steps in preparing documents used in a project

• Examine the most effective means of communication during a project

• Review the purposes and goals of the various types of project status meetings

• Examine how a crisis can affect a project

• Explore the use of user stories in the agile project management process

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize when unconscious bias occurs and why it's important to understand

• Explore how unconscious bias is relevant in the business world

• Identify three strategies to counteract potential unconscious bias

• Define confirmation bias

• Review the meaning of the Halo Effect

• Explore the effects groupthink can have in a professional setting

Learning Objectives:

• Getting comfortable asking for feedback

• Overcoming blind spots

• Creating a growth mindset

• Giving effective and unbiased feedback

Learning Objectives:

• Identify types of products

• Recognize different types of industries

• Examine what elements make up a quality extended team

• Explore the components of managing a life cycle

• Name the elements of a strong research plan

• Break down how to pitch an idea

• Identify versions, releases, and sprints

• Recognize how to monitor progress using a burndown chart

• Define your go-to market

Learning Objectives:

• Name who is responsible for approving the resources for the project

• Recall what the spine of a fishbone diagram represents

• List characteristics of the environment

• Identify the tools used for mapping processes

• Recognize what needs to be captured on the action item list

• Recall what project metrics should be related to

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the definition of project management

• Explore the similarities and differences between traditional and agile project management

• Determine how organizational structure affects projects

• Explore the fundamentals of analyzing project stakeholders

• Examine the best ways to identify a project goal

• Determine the best ways to choose a strategy

• Examine strategies to gather requirements

• Identify the fundamentals of developing a project budget

• Distinguish the best ways to craft a quality plan

• Conclude the best steps to take when determining the processes for procuring resources

Learning Objectives:

• Describe three ethical values used in project management

• Identify three strategies for showing regard for time and brainpower when communicating

• Explain the consequences of violating a mandatory ethical standard put forth by PMI

• Summarize the characteristics of PMI’s aspirational standards

• Determine whether a situation provides evidence for an aspirational standard

• Recognize three common challenges present during projection initiation and planning

Learning Objectives:

• Developing a schedule management plan

• Identifying project activities

• Adding milestones

• Organizing work

• Estimating duration and work

• Handling lag in dependencies

• Defining resources

• Assigning resources to activities

• Working with part-time and remote workers

• Fine-tuning assignments

• Optimizing schedules

• Managing and changing schedules

Learning Objectives:

• Define “noise” in a message

• Identify the best method of communication for an emotionally charged and complex topic

• Recall the purpose of a stakeholder register

• Name the four quadrants in a power and interest grid

• Recognize the most common impediment to communication in cross-functional teams

• Review the SHARKS approach and explain how it helps with meeting organization

Learning Objectives:

• Recall best practices for project budgeting and estimation

• Distinguish common estimation approaches used to build project budgets, and understand when to use them

• Identify best practices for budget expectation management, while utilizing sound budget refinement techniques

• Describe and explore agile project budgeting techniques

• Review various approaches for correcting project budget overruns

• Review sound budget reporting approaches, including how they can be used to report project status

• Recognize the issues and changes that can put a project budget in jeopardy

Learning Objectives:

• Examine the Myers-Briggs type indicator

• Explore use of the Tates work styles assessment

• Identify the elements of emotional intelligence

• Explore applications of the situational leadership model to address employee needs

• Examine how the Lencioni model applies to dysfunctional teams

Learning Objectives:

• Define business writing

• Describe how to make your writing concise and complete

• Identify the elements of a clear message

• List examples of concrete requests

• Use a writing process to avoid common errors

• Address common grammatical and punctuation errors

• Identify special considerations for emails, reports, and memos

Learning Objectives:

• Explain what is needed to shift from a building to a learning mindset

• Interpret the three skills of an innovator

• Determine the benefits of customer interviews

• Distinguish when to use the four primary methods before investing in building anything

• Differentiate the behaviors that create psychological safety and innovation

Learning Objectives:

• Today's threat landscape

• Managing incidents

• Creating security policies

• Protecting data

• THE COBIT framework

• Conducting penetration testing

Learning Objectives:

• Plan how to use technology successfully in your meetings

• Determine how to select and support a meeting leader

• Prepare what you need to make meaningful commitments in a meeting

• Identify successful ways to initiate a meeting

• Propose challenging ideas while promoting and maintaining healthy relationships

• Delegate and coordinate work successfully

• Follow up consistently to create a workplace culture of accountability

Learning Objectives:

• Recall the timeframe that applies to application for a utility patent

• Identify the type of patent that would be best for a product where design is more important than function

• Define the meaning of patent prosecution

• Recall the basics of patent infringement

• Recognize legally accurate scenarios regarding patent rights and benefits

Learning Objectives:

• Plan how to use technology successfully in your meetings

• Determine how to select and support a meeting leader

• Prepare what you need to make meaningful commitments in a meeting

• Identify successful ways to initiate a meeting

• Propose challenging ideas while promoting and maintaining healthy relationships

• Delegate and coordinate work successfully

• Follow up consistently to create a workplace culture of accountability

Learning Objectives:

• What is feature engineering?

• Exploring the data

• Plotting features

• Cleaning existing features

• Creating new features

• Standardizing features

• Comparing the impacts on model performance

Learning Objectives:

• Designing the foundations for your strategic plan

• Building your strategic planning team

• Developing your vision and mission

• Setting long-term goals

• Determining the current state of your strategic plan

• Executing your strategic plan

• Avoiding common pitfalls

Learning Objectives:

• Missing data

• Duplicate rows and values

• Converting data

• Formatting data

• Working with tidy data

• Tidying data sets

• Dealing with suspicious data

Learning Objectives:

This course covers some of the most important features of productive data cleaning and acquisition, with practical coding examples using Python. Emphasizes on the importance of the value of clean high-quality data, developing the ability to recognize common errors and how to fix them. 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the characteristics of different data types and the work of data scientists.

• Describe different data serialization formats and explain how to use them in Python.

• Define APIs and explain how to use them with Python to make http calls, interpret JSON, and utilize message queues.

• Explain what web scraping is and describe ways to do it.

• Define what a schema is and describe characteristics of schemas and how they influence operations.

• Describe the characteristics of different types of databases.

• Categorize types of errors and explain how to correct them.

• Explain design criteria for data systems and describe how to monitor performance using KPIs.

Learning Objectives:

This course focuses on how to think about data, audience, and goals to create visuals that maximize impact. It also focuses on human visual perception and chart selection strategies, which make all the difference when visualizing data. 

Learning Objectives:

Regular expressions can speed up tedious tasks and streamline your workflow. They are an indispensable tool with programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, C#, and more. This course goes over the definitions, details, and basic processes to start using regular expressions. 

Learning Objectives:

• Use a Jupyter notebook to execute a series of commands.

• Describe common commands to load and export data.

• Explain pandas usage basics.

• Modify a DataFrame using common data methods.

• Create simple plots using Matplotlib.

• Apply advanced techniques to produce complex plots.

Learning Objectives:

• Exploratory data analysis vs. hypothesis-driven statistical analysis

• Performing data quality checks

• Calculating quartiles

• Using box plot to understand the distribution of values

• Using histograms to understand the frequency of values

• Using chi square to understand the correlation between values

Learning Objectives:

• Reading and writing files

• Organizing directories

• Web scraping with Beautiful Soup

• Automating web browsing with Selenium

• Automating with APIS

• Creating API requests

• Linking API calls

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the process of creating a project charter.

• Explain the steps in preparing documents used in a project.

• Examine the most effective means of communication during a project.

• Review the purposes and goals of the various types of project status meetings.

• Examine how a crisis can affect a project.

• Explore the use of user stories in the agile project management process.